The former Alabama emergency director, Eddie Hicks said that drones save lives. The ability of unmanned aircraft to send videos of impacted areas to operation centers and to first responders will play a larger role in...
Tag - Drones for Good
NSW Government doubles number of drones to keep people safe from sharks in Australia
In Australia, the New South Wales Government announced a new $8 million strategy to keep people safe from sharks this season. Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall commented that up 80 drones will be used to do so. This is...
DJI releases interactive ‘Drone-Assisted Rescues Worldwide’ map
Finally, it is here! DJI’s Adam Lisberg once told me how much work it was to chase, verify, and compile the news stories in which drones played an often crucial role in helping to save somebody’s life...
Illegal cannabis farms spotted with drones and thermal cameras
In England, drones with thermal cameras are an effective tool in the discovery and prosecution of illegal cannabis farms and their operators.
Foot soldiers, ATVs, horses, sonar and drones used in search for missing Fort Hood soldier, Vanessa Guillen
Foot soldiers, ATVs, horses, sonar, and drones are used in the search for missing Fort Hood soldier, Vanessa Guillen. #dronesforgood
Drone finds lost hiking family in Florida nature reserve
What started out as a leisurely family hike turned scary when the group got lost in a almost 2,000 square mile Florida nature reserve last Sunday. Luckily an operator with a drone found the lost hikers quickly...
Drone with a thermal camera locates canoers in distress
A drone with a thermal camera locates two canoers who were in distress after their vessel began taking on water in Bridgewater, MA. #dronesforgood
Sterile mosquitoes deployed by drone to stop spread of insect-borne illnesses
Sterile male mosquitos will be deployed by drone to help stop the spread of insect-born illnesses such as malaria. As the male mosquitos will not produce any offspring, this proof of concept experiment if successful...
Drone used in search for missing boater in Delaware waterway
A drone helps in the search for a missing boater in the Delaware waterway. On Tuesday morning the search resumed for a 45-year-old missing man from an overturned boat in a Delaware waterway.
Search and Rescue and drone team locate person who was missing for eight days
The Spotsylvania Search and Rescue team and the drone team located a person who was missing for eight days with help from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management and the Spotsylvania Fire Rescue & Emergency...
Drone aids in San Joaquin River rescue of father and daughter after their canoe capsizes
A drone from the Antioch Police Department aids in San Joaquin River rescue of a father and daughter after their canoe capsized and sinks in the middle of the river. #dronesforgood
Overdue hikers located by drone on Four Pass Loop attempt
The two hikers were one day overdue during an early-season attempt of the Four Pass Loop in Colorado. The duo was located by a drone from the Mountain Rescue Aspen team near Crater Lake on Wednesday.
Parrot Anafi Thermal SE outdoor tactical drone shows in new photos
This week new photos appeared online that show the Parrot Anafi Thermal SE outdoor tactical drone in greater detail and also side-by-side to its smaller brother the Parrot ANAFI. As we said before, this seems to be the...
Drones and machine learning to detect dangerous ‘butterfly’ landmines
Machine learning in combination with drones could be used for good to detect dangerous ‘butterfly’ landmines says new research from Binghamton University and State University at New York.
Flash Forest aims to plant 40,000 trees per month with a drone
Drones can do many things faster, more efficiently, and more economically. One of them we now learn is planting trees. The Flash Forest drones can plant up to 40,000 trees per month. Much faster than humans could do...
Drone with thermal camera locates missing 84-year-old woman
In Nijkerk, The Netherlands, a missing, 84-year-old woman was found in a field with help from a drone outfitted with a thermal camera. Volunteers and two helicopters were used in the search and rescue mission, but it...
Police drone helps to find ‘high-risk’ missing woman
A police drone helps to locate a ‘high-risk’ missing woman in Derbyshire in the UK. As we have seen in many other examples, the drone pilot was able to find the missing person quickly with the help of the...
Drones help locate 15-year-old missing girl from Mooresville, NC
Drones were used by the Mooresville Police Department and Mooresville Fire Rescue in the search for a missing 15-year-old girl, who was last seen at the intersection of Montebello and Plantation Ridge Drive. This is the...
Two DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual drones helped put out Chernobyl wildfire
On April 4th, a massive wildfire broke out in the forests around the Chernobyl exclusion zone, almost exactly 34 years after the meltdown of reactor four in April 1986. A fleet of 10 unmanned aircraft including two DJI...
The Parrot ANAFI UA – The perfect drone for search and rescue operators?
Only a few days ago, we wrote about this tender from the department of the interior in France and how they are looking to purchase 651 drones. Part of the tender seemed to be specifically written for the Parrot ANAFI...
